Romantic getaway ends with police citation

A would-be Romeo ended up alone after his intoxicated date's boyfriend interrupted their romantic getaway at a couples hotel, police said.

Police were summoned July 21 to the Essence Suites on the 14400 block of LaGrange Road in Orland Park. They said a man had purchased the room with a 19-year-old Downers Grove woman and then left to get her cigarettes. In the interlude, she called her boyfriend "to hang out."

Police, who arrived in time to prevent a fight between the two men, charged the woman with underage consumption of alcohol. Because her blood-alcohol concentration — .297 — was nearly four times the legal limit for driving, Orland Fire Protection District paramedics took her to a local hospital for treatment. Her boyfriend took her home, police said.